Honor Mrs. Jones at Birthday Dinner
A family dinner at Mr. and Mrs. Otha Jones home honored Mrs. Jones on her birthday. Attendees included numerous relatives from Kirksville Missouri Kinross and local areas. other gatherings included supper guests at Dr. and Mrs. Miller and Keota and several birthday and anniversary observances across the community.
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Mrs. Jones
Jimmy
Frank Brush
Howard
Dorothea Capper
Henry Semler, Jr
Duane
Harold
Phylis
John Witthoft
Eldon
Ruth
Jones
Fonda
Gloria Swanson Plans Glamorous Screen Return
Gloria Swanson, once the era’s peak star, announces a comeback. In her forties and after a fifteen year peak, she credits a good role as the reason for returning to film.
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Gloria Swanson
Miss Swanson
Living Lake Road Prepared for Oil
Living Lake Road east of Living Lake school is closed for grading to prepare an oiled road toward Bethel church. It will extend east to South Prairie school, north to Clive Gray corner, then east to Bethel church, and likely be let to settle and oiled next year to ease farm travel.
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Living Lake
Bethel Church
South Prairie School
Clive Gray
Bethel
H. J. Wilson
Test Well Strikes Water at 81 Feet in Riverside
Riverside Iowa April 16 water struck at 81 feet in a new test well drilled by BDFL bee wards of West Liberty for the town of Riverside. The well on the Alphonse Lear place yielded a promising sand layer, while the current town well provides only about ten gallons per minute and needs constant pumping. The well will be tested when circumstances permit. Paint Church Steeple The main steeple of St. Marys church and lower sections are being painted this week by Glenn and Clement Rummelhart of Iowa City, assisted by brothers Elmo and Clifford Rumemlhart of Riverside. the 155 foot tower will be compared to taller towers they painted recently in Cedar Rapids.
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Riverside
Iowa
Bdfl Bee
West Liberty
Alphonse Lear
Edwards
St. Mary's Church
Glenn
Clement Rummelhart
Iowa City
Elmo
Clifford Rumemlhart
Cedar Rapids
Nurse Freeland Maps Long Bicycle Tour Across America
Maxine Freeland a Michican nurse left her job last October to bicycle across the United States with Alma Wicks of Ann Arbor and a small gear set. They travel light with English style three speed bicycles, cooking stoves, sleeping bags and minimal baggage planning to visit the Grand Canyon Carlsbad Caverns and California before heading toward Oregon Washington and possibly Australia later.
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Maxine Freeland
America
Michigan
Texas
Norway
American Youth Hostel
Miss Wicks
Fort Worth
Miss Freeland
Arlsbad Caverns
Grand Canyon
San Diego
California
Oregon
Washington
Australia
Chicago editor John Arena Shot Dead in North Side Killing
Police pursue gangland style slaying of John Arena 35 editor of a weekly Italian newspaper in Chicago. Arena was shot to death while talking with a young woman in a car at a North Side street intersection.
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Chicago
John Arena
Arena
Local visitors visit area families this Easter weekend
Mr and Mrs Adrian Dautremont and daughter Gae Ann plus Mr and Mrs Richard Seel ey and son Rovert from Cedar Rapids visited the Dautremont home. Donald Elbert of Littleport and Lucey Schnoebelen hosted guests while Hubert J Swift and Clair Swift of Manchester spent Sunday with relatives. Rev Joseph J Fath of St Marys parish returned to duties after a Brooklyn visit. Guests at John Melleckers in Iowa City included August Jeno and Edward Rotenburger. Hubert J Kern of Muscatine, formerly of this place, was mentioned among visitors.
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Henry Weaver
Mary Jane Yoder
Lorene Milan
le Anna Butterbaugh
Gladys Stutsman
Alta Troyer
Lavern Hartzler
Erma Yoder
Neema Dickel
Isaac Manner
Albert Walton
Floyd Nefteneever
Beverly
George
Edith Reed
Keokuk
Boyd Foster
Stafford
Eliza Stafford
Rennie Dawson
Kathryn
Adrian Dautremont
Gae Ann
Richard Seeley
Rovert
Cedar Rapids
Dautremont
C. V. Dautremont
Donald Elbert
Little Port
Lucey Schnoebelen
Hubert J. Swift
Manchester
August Jeno
Edward Rotenburger
Riverside
Hubert J. Kern
Muscatine
River side business visitor noted Monday
A business visitor was recorded in River side on Monday for unspecified meetings. No further details available on the visitor's name, company, or purpose.
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Riverside
In Memoriam for W. F. Leppert
In memory of W F Leppert a precious one from us has gone A voice We loved is still A place is vacant in our home which never can be filled Day by day we sadly miss him Loving husband true and kind No friend on earth like him will end May God grant him eternal rest Sadly missed by his wife Mrs W F Leppert
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W. F. Leppert
Honest living through criminals
A question about earning an honest living from others criminal acts yields a surprising answer. The piece notes that policemen judges welfare workers psychiatrists investigators detectives writers and gun manufacturers all derive legitimate livelihood from the moral hazards and illicit activities surrounding crime.
FOR SALE 1936 INTERNATIONAL TRUCK CAB AND CHASSIS
For sale a 1936 International short wheelbase truck cab and chassis. Runs fine and priced low. See Tucker Chevrolet. Also for sale a 1933 Chevrolet coach in surprisingly good condition for its age. See Tucker Chevrolet. The bat possesses keen ears to hear the beating wings of tiny insects it pursues in the dark.
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Tucker Chevrolet
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Iowa Continental Telephone Co
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Marjorie
Jean Walker
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